Deputy Director-Technical at Achieving Health Nigeria Initiative (AHNi)

Job Description

• The Candidate will be responsible for technical leadership of the program, ensuring the implementation of high-quality, evidence-based interventions, and managing a team of senior technical staff and sub-partners to ensure quality, timeliness, and efficiency of all activities and products generated under the project.
• S/He will be responsible for coordinating and overseeing the quality of all technical activities, providing direction, feedback, and support to ensure success.
• Ensure program adherence to internationally accepted technical norms and standards of practice.
• Provide input into and assure that all donor reporting requirements on program impact are met and assist implementing partners/grantees in setting up reporting and tracking systems to provide such information in an efficient and timely manner.

Minimum Recruitment Standard:

• A Master’s degree or higher in Public Health, Epidemiology or a related field is required (PEPFAR experience preferred).
• At least eight years’ experience working as a senior level manager in a public health program in a developing country.
• In-depth technical knowledge and experience in all components of the HIV/AIDS program including Prevention, Treatment, Care & Support, PMTCT, HIV/TB, OVCs as well as cross-cutting areas like HSS, M&E, Gender etc.
• Progressive experience with HIV prevention, treatment and/or care and support programming including design, implementation, monitoring and reporting of activities of similar size and complexity in Nigeria or a similar setting.
• Demonstrated supervisory skills and ability to work well in a team.
• Demonstrated experience implementing and managing programs in resource constrained countries.
• Demonstrated experience producing quality English-language communications products, such as progress reports, case studies, and research protocols.
• Experience interacting with developing country government, international organization, other bilateral donor and civil society representatives, and senior level government officials.
• At least three years of experience working with USG cooperative agreements or contracts in senior program management capacity.
• Demonstrated ability to establish and sustain professional relationships with civil society organizations and host country government counterparts.
• Familiarity with Nigerian public sector health systems, international donor organizations, NGOs and CBOs is required.
• Demonstrated success in multicultural environments is required.